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Smart Web Notifications

a technology of web notifications and smart notifications, applied in the field of smart web notifications, can solve the problems of affecting the overall user experience and the system is limited to those websites

Inactive Publication Date: 2014-05-08
GOOGLE LLC
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This patent describes a method for receiving and displaying notifications on a client device. It involves establishing communication channels between the device and servers, identifying notifications from different sources, and assigning an importance score to each one based on the user's interactions with the device. The notifications are then displayed in order of importance, with a longer display time for the most important ones. Overall, this invention helps to prioritize and manage notifications on a client device.

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Existing notification systems have certain drawbacks which detract from the overall user experience.
However, this is quite limited because (i) the website has to be open all the time (as an open tab) in order to send notifications and (ii) it is shown outside the browser and the behavior of notifications varies between different operating systems.
However, the system is limited only to those websites that provide RSS feeds.

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[0019]In the detailed description of embodiments that follows, references to “one embodiment”, “an embodiment”, “an example embodiment”, etc., indicate that the embodiment described may include a particular feature, structure, or characteristic, but every embodiment may not necessarily include the particular feature, structure, or characteristic. Moreover, such phrases are not necessarily referring to the same embodiment. Further, when a particular feature, structure, or characteristic is described in connection with an embodiment, it is submitted that it is within the knowledge of one skilled in the art to effect such feature, structure, or characteristic in connection with other embodiments whether or not explicitly described.

[0020]Notification systems provide users with updates to content for different kinds of notification sources. An application, as described herein, allows its users to receive, aggregate and display notifications from different kinds of notification sources. I...

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Abstract

Methods and systems that provide browser notifications are provided. A plurality of communication channels are established between a client device and one or more servers. The plurality of communication channels are associated with a plurality of notification sources for a web application. One or more notifications from the plurality of notification sources are identified. An importance score is generated for each of the one or more identified notifications. An importance score is generated based on a characteristic of a user's interactions with the client device. The one or more notifications are displayed in a viewing area of the client device. The importance score determines an order of display and duration of display for each notification.

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BACKGROUND[0001]1. Field[0002]Embodiments are generally related to an application or service that receives, aggregates, and displays notifications.[0003]2. Background[0004]A notification system provides a means of delivering a message to a recipient. A user of a web-based application, such as a browser, may register to receive updates from different websites. In one example, when a user is viewing the contents of an active browser tab, updates to a non-active browser tab may occur. For example, the non-active browser tab may receive automatic page refreshes, which result in an update of the browser tab. In general, a user may be unaware of these updates while viewing an active tab. Recently, some browsers have included functionality to help a user become aware of updates to non-active browser tabs. Such methods include causing the tab of a non-active browser tab to flash whenever the content for that tab has changed. Additional techniques include websites providing notifications to ...

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IPC IPC(8): G06F15/16
CPCG06F9/542G06F2209/545G06F16/9535H04L51/224
Inventor THYAGARAJA, SOMAS
Owner GOOGLE LLC
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